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measure growth from. I learned if students had post secondary goals, if they are receiving post secondary advisement and if so from where and most important I found what careers interested them most. Most students were only receiving advisement...

CHAPTER XVIII
C N l L WAR TIMES 1861 - 1865
he year 1861was one of the most distresimg years America had ever seen since becoming an independent nation. Five states seceded fiom the union in January--Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and...

From your observations, do students write better quality (fewer errors, address the topic better) with iPads or handwritten? Why?
Student's in general have fewer errors and writing is more legible using iPads. About equal. My 7th graders make more...

banlefield more than a miliion men and a debt of millions of dollars and thousands of lives. The state of Missouri, where the saints have received their persecutions, is now the great banlefield of the west. It is now man against man and neighbor...

resources already out there. I use the iPad mostly with reading. Students can look up information and books or articles of interest and they can read narrative texts easily there. I use the iPads mostly with writing. Even in the reading class, we...

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of the student body had plans to obtain at least a bachelor’s degree, 9% are planning on an associate’s degree, 12% are considering an apprenticeship and/or a trade certificate, and none of the students surveyed were unsure as to what...

of law enforcement in t h e City. The Marshal admitted t h a t he had been too lenient and promised to make an effort to c a r r y out his instructions. March 1 9 , 1931.. .Mr. Harry W . Leigh and Thomas A . Thorley met with the Council in behalf...

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Chapter 3
Methodology
As Lesaux, Kieffer, Faller, and Kelly (2010) pointed out, “Despite the importance of vocabulary knowledge for older readers and its role in the academic difficulties of many learners, it is rarely an emphasis in middle...

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now live in. Students not only need to learn reading and writing they also need to learn how to use today’s technology, cultures, and be able to think diversely. Our world is more connected internationally than it has ever been before and...

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Appendix A
Your child is being asked to participate in the research study, “Motivating at-risk teens to set post-secondary goals.” Researchers are required to provide a consent form to inform you about the study, to convey that your consent and...

article appeared in the Deseret News on Wednesday, April 16, 1863: Parowan Cotton Factory--The cotton mill at Parowan, owned by Ebenezer Hanks, is so far completed as to be doing tolerable good work, with a fair prospect that it will be a success,...

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an interactive whiteboard for the class to view. Worksheets with questions were then handed out, and the students were guided on an Internet scavenger hunt to find the answers. To begin the hunt, the teacher projected a Microsoft Word document...

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Chapter 4
Results
The focus of this study was to investigate whether a vocabulary program could be implemented in a mainstream classroom with relative ease while at the same time being effective in helping ELLs and below grade-level...

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Appendix B
Education and Career Interests Pre-Survey
What is the highest level of education and training that you plan on obtaining?
___ Bachelor’s Degree
___ Associate’s Degree
___ Apprenticeship
___ Certificate
Outside of school, do you have...

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Have you already decided on a career? If yes, please specify the career
___ Yes: Career Description-
___ No
Do you plan to get your education or training following high school in the state in which you are now living?
___ Yes
___ No
Are you...

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word, and they would write a sentence using the word correctly. They would then pass it to their neighbor and the researcher would say the next word; and they would read what their classmate wrote and then write their new word in another...